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ArticleClinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)2016

Role of the treating surgeon in the consent process for elective refractive surgery.

Steven C Schallhorn, Stephen J Hannan, David Teenan, Julie M Schallhorn

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Article in Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Steven C SchallhornDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco; Roski Eye Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Optical Express, Glasgow, UK.
Stephen J HannanOptical Express, Glasgow, UK.
David TeenanOptical Express, Glasgow, UK.
Julie M SchallhornDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.

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Abstract

purposeTo compare patient's perception of consent quality, clinical and quality-of-life outcomes after laser vision correction (LVC) and refractive lens exchange (RLE) between patients who met their treating surgeon prior to the day of surgery (PDOS) or on the day of surgery (DOS).

designRetrospective, comparative case series.

settingOptical Express, Glasgow, UK.

methodsPatients treated between October 2015 and June 2016 (3972 LVC and 979 RLE patients) who attended 1-day and 1-month postoperative aftercare and answered a questionnaire were included in this study. All patients had a thorough preoperative discussion with an optometrist, watched a video consent, and were provided with written information. Patients then had a verbal discussion with their treating surgeon either PDOS or on the DOS, according to patient preference. Preoperative and 1-month postoperative visual acuity, refraction, preoperative, 1-day and 1-month postoperative questionnaire were compared between DOS and PDOS patients. Multivariate regression model was developed to find factors associated with patient's perception of consent quality.

resultsPreoperatively, 8.0% of LVC and 17.1% of RLE patients elected to meet their surgeon ahead of the surgery day. In the LVC group, 97.5% of DOS and 97.2% of PDOS patients indicated they were properly consented for surgery (

conclusionPerception of quality of consent was comparable between patients that elected to meet the surgeon PDOS, and those who did not.

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consent processlaser vision correctionquality of life outcomesrefractive lens exchangerefractive surgery

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PMID27932862
PMCPMC5135399

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